First full month of data after Covid-19 shutdown shows dramatic downturn in employment

An analysis of data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that both native-born Americans and immigrants suffered a massive increase in unemployment in April. With 18.2 million natives and 4.3 million immigrants unemployed, it is now especially difficult to justify the continued entry of new immigrants on the grounds of any "labor shortage".

This report examines how immigrants in the United States perform on international tests, with comparisons both to native-born Americans and to the broader Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The results indicate that the United States has failed to bring the achievement level of low-skill immigrants and their children up to parity with other Americans.

First full month of data after Covid-19 shutdown shows dramatic downturn in employment

An analysis of data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that both native-born Americans and immigrants suffered a massive increase in unemployment in April. With 18.2 million natives and 4.3 million immigrants unemployed, it is now especially difficult to justify the continued entry of new immigrants on the grounds of any "labor shortage".

This report examines how immigrants in the United States perform on international tests, with comparisons both to native-born Americans and to the broader Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The results indicate that the United States has failed to bring the achievement level of low-skill immigrants and their children up to parity with other Americans.

Will authorities proceed with a double standard for them, letting them off more lightly than the American citizens who were arrested for the same crimes at the same time? This is sadly all too common today.

The president, with a stroke of a pen, and without spending a dime of taxpayers' money, or even borrowing (from our grandkids), can give $2 billion a year to voters while raising the money exclusively from non-voters.

At the very same time, he can open up 150,000 or so good jobs for recent U.S. college grads, voters all.

And who will the extra money go to? Our elderly, our sick, and our unemployed. Another group of voters.

And who will be annoyed at this move? Some university deans and other educators who are highly unlikely to vote for him anyway.

Never let a bad decision go to waste

A mistaken ruling by the Supreme Court regarding claims under the Convention Against Torture opens the door to a change in regulations that would actually better protect aliens, streamline removal proceedings, reduce the burden on the immigration courts, and ensure due process.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.